Adhesive removal

[Rob Grady]

Good morning. I have a good customer who used adhesive backed plastic covering on his steps during construction. It was left on for about a year. He sent me this photo asking if I could remove the residue.
I am thinking to mist CitrusSolve, a wallpaper steamer to heat the affected areas really well and extract with my TM .
Have any of you ever ran into this type of problem? Thanks for your input!

 

[hogjowl]

Good luck

 

[Rob Grady]

lol that’s what I told them

 

[Jim Pemberton]

It was left on for about a year.

Make sure you get paid no matter what happens

Your concept is good, let me add a bit from my experience:

1. Its the customer's problem, get paid no matter what happens.

2. Citrus solvents leave soil attracting residues of their own. Make sure you follow the mist (I noted you said "mist"....you don't want too much of that on there) with a heavy application of a high pH, solvent boosted prespray (the nuke of your choice). This type of product is the mostly likely emulsify the adhesive AND the citrus solvent.

3. Lots of heat in your rinse/extraction step. Heat melts glue, and also will thin out the oily solvent.

4. Help the customer to understand that you can't see or feel the adhesive, so while the dirt will come off easily, the adhesive is clear, and may reattract soil over time. This is not bad cleaning on your part. Get paid no matter what happens.

Did I mention to get paid no matter what happens?

 

[Kenny Hayes]

Nope, don't have "that good of customers". Does look like something a priest would do though or have someone else do. Sounds like a plan.